Department for Education

Schools: Sports

Andrew Gwynne: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will make it her policy that school leadership teams publish details of accidents and injuries and the findings of sports injury investigations in their reports to governors, parents and OFSTED/ISI.

Andrew Gwynne: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will make it her policy that a prescriptive expectation of competent provision for the safety of children participating in school sports is formalised in the OFSTED/ISI inspection frameworks.

Edward Timpson: We want all children to lead healthy and active lives. We expect schools to be aware of the risks associated with sporting activities and to provide a safe environment for pupils.Head teachers must take reasonable steps to ensure that staff and pupils are not exposed to risks to their health and safety. This applies to activities on or off school premises. We expect schools to be aware of their responsibilities on reporting injuries. Guidance can be found in the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) education information sheet: Incident reporting in schools, available at http://www.hse.gov.uk/pubns/edis1.pdf. The Department has issued advice to schools on health and safety, available at https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/health-and-safety-advice-for-schools. The Association for Physical Education (AfPE) and the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents also provide advice to schools on how to manage activities safely and reduce the risk of injuries and accidents.The safety of pupils in regard to all the activities they undertake at school falls within the scope of inspection under both the Ofsted and Independent Schools Inspectorate (ISI) framework.

Ministry of Justice

Youth Custody: Restraint Techniques

Andy Slaughter: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many injuries were sustained by children during restraint in each custodial institution in each of the last eight years.

Andrew Selous: As the Justice Secretary has said, the safety and welfare of all those in custody is vital.Although youth crime is down, reoffending rates are far too high and the care and supervision of young people in custody is not good enough. Restraint should only be used as a last resort, when young people are putting their own safety and the safety of others at risk.In 2012, we introduced the Minimising and Managing Physical Restraint (MMPR). Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Prisons has welcomed the significant improvements that MMPR has brought.The number of minor and serious injuries requiring medical treatment resulting from RPIs is published in Chapter 8 of the Youth Justice Annual Statistics:https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/youth-justice-annual-statistics-2014-to-2015We are investigating the accuracy of all restraint injury data from Medway Secure Training Centre.The number of young people that establishments recorded as injured during incidents that required Restrictive Physical Intervention in each institution in the youth secure estate in each of the last eight years is set out in the attached document. This includes the following categories of injury: (i) serious injury requiring hospital treatment (ii) minor injuries requiring medical treatment and (iii) minor injuries, no treatment required.

Prisons: Hostage Taking

Andy Slaughter: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many hostage incidents in which a (a) prison officer and (b) prisoner was taken hostage have taken place in each prison establishment since January 2010.

Andrew Selous: Violence in prisons has increased in recent years. These figures demonstrate that the Prime Minister and the Justice Secretary are right and out prisons badly need reform. We are already trialling the use of body worn cameras in prisons, training sniffer dogs to detect new psychoactive substances and have made it an offence to smuggle new psychoactive substances into prison. However, ultimately the only way to reduce violence in our prisons is to give governors and those who work in prisons the tools necessary to more effectively rehabilitate offenders. Hostage incidents are rare occurrences. The table attached provides details of hostage incidents, broken down by establishment and victim type. Note: These figures have been drawn from the NOMS Incident Reporting System. Care is taken when processing and analysing the returns but the detail collected is subject to the inaccuracies inherent in any large scale recording system. Although the figures are shown to the last case the figures may not be accurate to that level. 



Hostage incidents in Prison - 2010 - 2016
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Department for Business, Innovation and Skills

Department for Business, Innovation and Skills: Location

Paul Blomfield: To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, with reference to the publication, entitled The Department for Education review, published in November 2012, what discussions he has had with the Secretary of State for Education on the potential benefits of departmental regional office bases to the delivery of his Department's policies.

Joseph Johnson: There have been no conversations between the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills and the Secretary of State for Education on the subjects above.

Trade Agreements: Scotland

Ms Tasmina Ahmed-Sheikh: To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, whether the Government has conducted an (a) impact and (b) risk assessment of the potential effect of the investor protection clause of the (i) Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership and (ii) EU Canada Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement on the services and regulations devolved to the Scottish Government; and if he will place copies of any such assessment in the Library.

Anna Soubry: The Department for Business, Innovation and Skills commissioned research into the costs and benefits for the UK of the inclusion of investment protection provisions in the EU-US Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP). This was published on 22 November 2013 and copies placed in the House libraries.The investment protection provisions in the EU-Canada Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) and any such provisions included in TTIP will not prevent Governments from regulating responsibly in the public interest, nor from delivering public services, including such services and regulations that are devolved to the Scottish Government. A claim can only be made under the Investor-State Dispute Settlement (ISDS) provisions where an investor believes it has suffered from discriminatory or unfair treatment. ISDS tribunals can typically only award compensation and cannot force governments to change laws or public service delivery models. The UK currently has over 90 investment protection agreements with other countries. There has been no successful action against the UK in respect of any of these agreements.